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Gatherer Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$429k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$2.6MEducation$675kPhilanthropy$643kHealth$620kYouth Development$521kHuman Services$439kInternational$319kFood & Nutrition$174kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $233k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $501k
  • $250k+3 grants · $971k
$12,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mariners Church$429,114
Come and See Foundation$292,084
Free Wheelchair Mission$250,000
REASONS TO BELIEVE$120,000
Star Rock Ministries$105,000
University of Northwestern St Paul$85,000
Pacific Northwest Christian College$75,000
Africa Renewal Ministry$60,000
Beyond The Known International$56,060
Milestone Church$25,000
Little Church by the Sea$20,000
Daily Hope Ministries$20,000
Defenders of Freedom$15,000
Freedom Church of Philadelphia$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $424k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HANDS OF A FRIEND (MANOS AMIGAS): $50k → 15%Guide Dogs for the Blind: $14k → 8%Serving People in Need: $14k → 10%Defenders of Freedom: $15k → 14%Embrace a Village: $11k → 9%TRI-CITY UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $30k → 11%Guide Dogs for the Blind: $10k → 8%Claris Health: $10k → 14%Defenders of Freedom: $15k → 14%Tri City Union Gospel Mission: $20k → 11%PreBorn: $12k → 16%Tri City Union Gospel Mission: $15k → 11%Mirror Ministries: $100k → 11%Mirror Ministries: $50k → 11%The Obria Group Inc: $5k → 10%Acres of Love: $34k → 10%Acres of Love: $10k → 10%ACRES OF LOVE: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
NV
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
TN
NC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 39 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
40

Total granted

$4.7M
$817k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $487k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionHealthInternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SR
    STAR ROCK MINISTRIES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $511k · revenue +108%
  • RT
    REASONS TO BELIEVE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +21%
  • PN
    PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $154k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • AP
    Azusa Pacific University Honors Col
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • JT
    Joy to Kids Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -78% · 58% of their budget
  • FREEDOM ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +10%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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What Matters Ministries and Missions

The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.

Religion
3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
5
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
6
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International
7
Far Reaching Ministries

Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…

International
8
Uncharted Ministries

Uncharted ministries informs, inspires and challenges the christian church to serve the people of the middle east and in uncharted lands.

Religion
9
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
10
A Jesus Mission

A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.

Religion
11
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
12
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Tri Cities Steelband Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
39/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COME AND SEE FOUNDATION INC: $842,084 · OtherCOME AND SEE FOUNDATION INCMARINERS CHURCH: $771,414 · OtherMARINERS CHURCHSaddleback Church: $393,750 · OtherSaddleback ChurchSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $130,000 · Other+55 more: $1,481,060 · Other+55 moreBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $622,500 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AME…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $30,000 · PhilanthropyREASONS TO BELIEVE: $165,000 · ReligionREASONS TO…PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: $154,040 · ReligionPACIFIC NO…Joy to Kids Inc: $75,000 · ReligionJoy to Kid…Church United: $70,000 · ReligionChurch Uni…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'…WEST JAPAN MISSION INC: $40,000 · ReligionWEST JAPAN…Purpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope: $30,000 · Religion+2 more: $20,000 · ReligionSTAR ROCK MINISTRIES: $511,300 · Youth DevelopmentFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $250,000 · HealthJessie Rees Foundation: $135,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $30,000 · HealthCITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 · HealthTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $15,000 · HealthMirror Ministries: $150,000 · Human ServicesTRI CITY UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $65,000 · Human ServicesACRES OF LOVE: $54,000 · Human ServicesHands of a Friend (Manos Amigas): $50,000 · Human ServicesDefenders of Freedom: $30,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $24,000 · Human Services+5 more: $51,250 · Human ServicesAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $176,300 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $100,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · Education
Other$3,618,308Philanthropy$682,500Religion$604,040Youth Development$511,300Health$470,000Human Services$424,250Education$326,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTAR ROCK MINISTRIES: $511,300 over 6y, 15% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $176,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREASONS TO BELIEVE: $165,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: $154,040 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetMirror Ministries: $150,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $135,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $130,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJoy to Kids Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetChurch United: $70,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTRI CITY UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $65,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRIES INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetACRES OF LOVE: $54,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHands of a Friend (Manos Amigas): $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWEST JAPAN MISSION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAgape International Missions: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Freedom: $30,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPurpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLENNWOOD HOUSING FOUNDATION INC: $29,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Justice Institute: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRI CITIES STEELBAND ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTroops Direct: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN HEARTS MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetELEVATE ORPHAN: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetServing People In Need Inc: $13,750 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAfrica New Day Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMRITA-SEATTLE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetVILLAGE MISSIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWheaton College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER-MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetEquu8 Horsemanship and Therapeutic Riding: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OBRIA GROUP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Orange County Communi…Christian Community F…The Signatry Charitab…Servant FoundationEdwards Lifesciences …Thrivent Charitable I…Greater HorizonsThe US Charitable Gif…Lindholm FoundationKrislynn FoundationChristian Foundation …Farmers & Merchants B…
Orange County Community FoundationCA22.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Greater Horizons · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Lindholm Foundation · Krislynn Foundation · Christian Foundation of America DBA Christian Foundation of The West · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gatherer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gatherer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Gatherer Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gatherer Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home